March 2021

Back in October, we ran a Popcorn Panel webinar on cultural safety, and it was here I heard for the first time about “indigenising your space” in pharmacy

Enrolments for first-year students are nosediving at both pharmacy schools and Auckland has failed to attract a single Māori pharmacy student

Shortages of OTC pharmacy products created by COVID-19 last year are not letting up, but an importer of major brands is hopeful the situation will improve this year

Counties Manukau DHB is considering whether to step in to provide community pharmacy and GP ­services in the event that private businesses collapse

Registrations of new pharmacists are down 11.1 per cent from the previous year, but Pharmacy Council chief executive Michael Pead explains it was the result of a COVID-19-related glitch

Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa –Māori Pharmacists’ Association president Kevin Pewhairangi is concerned the Pharmacy Council did not take a partnership approach to developing its new recertification framework for pharmacists

Submissions are rolling in on new regulations for selling vaping products but there are signs the­ ­pharmacy sector’s interest in selling such products is on the wane

Eight months on from the original announcement of an $18 ­million COVID fund for pharmacy, $431,875 has now been allocated

The Pharmacy Council nearly broke even last year because it slowed several significant projects due to the COVID-19 pandemic

It is “crucial” to indigenise your pharmacy in order to establish a culturally safe environment as the existing one-sided systems fail, according to health researcher and psychiatrist Diana Kopua. Anna Lee reports